Aaron Roderick anxiously studied his phone, hoping to learn that his 9-year-old son found his assigned basketball court among the dozens temporarily created in a convention center in Sandy, 30 miles away.
In August, Roderick will navigate the four contending quarterbacks through a similarly complicated search that comes with a deadline. One of them will take the field Sept. 1 at Arizona, beginning a pivotal season for BYU’s football program.
It barely would be an exaggeration to say one (or more) of those quarterbacks will determine the entire direction of a season and the future of coach Kalani Sitake and his staff — including five new offensive assistants.